https://www.iowaheritage.org/search/index/page/2?query=Ruth+Suckow
Includes 8 of the 14 short stories found in Iowa Interiors. You can download them and read them for yourself.
Since copies of this book are getting harder to find, here is a list of the Contents of Iowa Interiors. You can read most of it online, and we're going to scan in the other stories.
A start in life -- www.ruthsuckow.org/home/ruth-suckow-s-short-stories. We're sending a copy to the Iowa Digital Heritage archive.
A homecoming – Iowa Digital Heritage (IDH)
The daughter – IDH
The Top of the Ladder–IDH
Mame – IDH
Uprooted -- we're sending a copy to the Iowa Digital Heritage archive.
Renters – IDH
Retired
A pilgrim and a stranger
A rural community -- www.ruthsuckow.org/home/ruth-suckow-s-short-stories. We're also sending a copy to the Iowa Digital Heritage archive.
Just him and her
The resurrection – IDH (Also on the Suckow website)
Wanderers – IDH
An investment for the future – IDH
Four generations -- we're sending a copy to the Iowa Digital Heritage archive.
Golden Wedding -- we're sending a copy to the Iowa Digital Heritage archive.
Come back here for the Agenda and more details about our day!
$500 Unit Plan Grant Opportunity.pdfHere is a very simple example below, when I taught Literature classes at Hawkeye Community College and incorporated 'A Rural Community' into the short story unit.
Cherie lesson plan with Ruth Suckow four small group questions.docx
Pictures from the 2025 Meeting. Upper left, The "Nice Girls" Panel. Upper right, Lyz Lenz, speaker.
Upper left, the Radio play version of the ending of Odyssey. Upper Right, Panel discussion on the conclusion of the story.
Essay #4 A Farm marriage Country People.pdfOur winning essay!
This website is dedicated to the work of noted Iowa author Ruth Suckow and her husband Ferner Nuhn. She was a famous writer with Iowa roots; this website was created by the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association (RSMA) to celebrate her literary legacy, and to help readers find information about her life and work--as well as provide access to some of her short stories.
To read more about their remarkable relationship, go to the page Ruth and Ferner.
You can purchase your own copy at our Annual meeting.
Cherie Dargan has a few of the Country People tote bags left. $15.00
We'll also have our RSMA Notepads. 50 pages with 16 quotes & 7 images. $2.00 each
We'll have both at our Annual Meeting.
The Ruth Suckow Memorial Association, with the support of Humanities Iowa, is pleased to announce the creation of a Traveling Exhibit celebrating the life and work of Iowa novelist and short story writer Ruth Suckow, who lived from 1892 to 1960.
We launched the Traveling Exhibit on January 1, 2024, as part of the Centennial Celebration of Suckow’s first novel, Country People. Host sites are now being scheduled for 2026 and 2026.
2025
July 6 – August 3, 2025: West Point Public Library – Exhibit Program by Dr. Barbara
Lounsberry, Emerita Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa.
August 10 – September 7, 2025: Burlington Public Library -- Exhibit Program by Dr. Barbara Lounsberry, Emerita Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa.
September 14 – October 12, 2025: Marion Public Library – Exhibit Program by Dr. Barbara Lounsberry, Emerita Professor of English, University of Northern Iowa.
October 19 – November 16, 2025: Loras College, Dubuque
November 23, 2025 – December 21 – Upham Public Library, Fredericksburg
2026
December 28, 2025 – January 25, 2026 – Livermore Public Library
February 1 – March 1, 2026 – Lied Public Library, Clarinda
March 8 – April 5 – Shenandoah Public Library
April 12 – May 17 (five weeks) – Gibson Public Library
Libraries that have expressed interest in hosting and received an Application Form
Albia Public Library *
Knoxville Public Library * Montezuma Public Library *
Ruthven Public Library
Listen to "A Start in Life," narrated by Jim Schaap of Dordt College.
Or read it here, Ruth Suckow Memorial Association - A Start in Life
A Start In Life 7.11.mp3RSMA President Barbara Lounsberry worked hard to get Ruth Suckow's stories on the Iowa Digital Heritage website. The first set of stories is about Iowa women's lives. There are now nineteen short stories plus her novelette, "A Part of the Institution," in all, thanks to the hard work of one of our members, Roy Kenagy. Thanks, Roy!
Follow the link below to go to the website.
Then click on "People and Biographies."
The Ruth Suckow Short Story Collection is on page 7--if you want to take a look or to direct others to these stories. Once you see the story, scroll down, and you can read the description and other information. If you then click on the red box, by the page at the top, the story will come up, and there is a "pop-up" button in the right-hand corner. If you click on that, it makes the story even bigger and easier to read and to print out.
We've posted pictures of some of his artwork: Figures of the 30s.
Please check out the page on Ferner (Resources on Ferner Nuhn) as well as Mentions to discover what other websites are saying about Suckow & RSMA (Links to Posts on Blogs), Writing about Suckow (for another chance to read Marsha's poem on Suckow), and RSMA News (for updates about projects and events).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferner_Nuhn
We replicated the Wikipedia entry on our site--on the page about Ferner. Written by webmaster Cherie Dargan, it draws from the hard work of several writers and historians in our group from the past, including Dorothy Grant.
In addition, the Ruth Suckow website may look the same, but we were approved for Google Apps for Non-Profits in 2013, which gives us a larger web space.
Ferner's Art is now here! Check out his sketches of fellow participants at some of the Writer's Workshops he and Ruth attended at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony, retreats established to give writers and artists a place to spend time creating their work. He called this collection of paintings "Figures of the 30s."
Find a reference to Suckow, a new photo, or have information about one of Ruth or Ferner's relatives?
Please contact Cherie, webmaster, at cheriedargan@gmail.com.
Want to contact us? Want to become a member? Click here for information!
Some people find us through the Wikipedia article on Ruth Suckow; however, if you haven't seen it yet, here it is. The article was written by Michael Dargan, the original webmaster for the first Suckow website.
You can LIKE us on Facebook! Search for the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association.
Ruth Suckow loved cats, and there are numerous photographs with her holding a cat. This one was sent to The Iowan magazine.
If any questions, please contact our Treasurer, Mike Dargan. dargan@gmail.com
